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Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children’s literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature.3 GradesSku: 9780307267115
Kipling: Poems by Rudyard Kipling
By: Rudyard Kipling$24.00 -
First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation, while celebrating at the same time Nature without check with original energy.Sku: 9781847497550
Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman$16.00 -
The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer.Sku: 9781786220011
Love, Remember: 40 Poems of Loss, Lament, and Hope
By: Malcolm Guite$29.50 -
Ovid's epic poem—whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages—is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work.Sku: 9780393326420
Metamorphoses
By: Ovid, Translated by Charles Martin$23.95 -
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Milton contains selections from Milton's work, including sonnets, occasional poems, portions of Comus, Samson Agonistes, as well as Books I--XII of Paradise Lost.3 GradesSku: 9780679450993
Milton: Poems by John Milton
By: John Milton$19.95 -
Derived from Greek Epicureanism, Lucretius's work challenges ancient mythology in favor of virtuous materialism. Through a combination of rich poetry and thoughtful analysis, Lucretius tackles such subjects as happiness, the soul, fear of death and the gods, and the material world.Sku: 9781936648474
On the Nature of Things
By: Lucretius$26.50 -
Since the publication of the bestselling Sounding the Seasons, Malcolm Guite has repeatedly been asked for more sonnets. This new collection offers a sequence of 50 sonnets that focus on many passages in the Gospels: the Beatitudes, parables and miracles, teachings on the Kingdom, and the ‘hard sayings’.Sku: 9781848258594
Parable and Paradox: Sonnets On the Sayings of Jesus and Other Poems
By: Malcolm Guite$24.95 -
Milton's great 17th-century epic draws upon Bible stories and classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence, as understood by people of the Western world. Its roots lie in the Genesis account of the world's creation and the first humans; its focus is a poetic interpretation "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe / With loss of Eden."Sku: 9780486442877
Paradise Lost
By: John Milton$22.50 -
Milton’s magnificent poem narrating Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden, now in a beautiful new clothbound edition.Sku: 9780241240618
Paradise Lost
By: John Milton$34.00 -
With the three works included in this volume--Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Lycidas--Milton placed himself next to Shakespeare, Dante, and Homer as one of the greatest literary genius in history.Sku: 9780451531834
Paradise Lost and Other Poems
By: John Milton$8.99 -
Among the most influential books in Western civilization, Aristotle's Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. In it are mentioned not only epic and dithyrambic poetry, but tragedy, comedy, and flute and lyre playing. Aristotle's conception of tragedy, i.e. the depiction of a heroic action that arouses pity and fear in the spectators and brings about a catharsis of those emotions, has helped perpetuate the Greek ideal of drama to the present day. Similarly, his dictums concerning unity of time and place, the necessity for a play to have a beginning, middle, and end, the idea of the tragic flaw and other concepts have had enormous influence down through the ages. Throughout the work, Aristotle reveals not only a great intellect analyzing the nature of poetry, music, and drama, but also a down-to-earth understanding of the practical problems facing the poet and playwright. Now, in this inexpensive edition of the Poetics, readers can enjoy the seminal insights of one of the greatest minds in human history as he sets about laying the foundations of critical thought about the arts.Reprint of a standard edition.3 GradesSku: 9780486295770
Poetics
By: Aristotle$5.00 -
This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien's own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes.Sku: 9780007557271
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
By: J.R.R. Tolkien$19.99 -
The Ballad of the White Horse is one of the last great epic poems in the English language. On the one hand it describes King Alfred’s battle against the Danes in 878. On the other hand it is a timeless allegory about the ongoing battle between Christianity and the forces of nihilistic heathenism. Filled with colorful characters, thrilling battles and mystical visions, it is as lively as it is profound.Sku: 9781621645962
The Ballad of the White Horse
By: G.K. Chesterton$25.95 -
Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins.Sku: 9780141195872
The Divine Comedy, Volume 1: Inferno
By: Dante Alighieri, Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick$40.00 -
The final volume in a brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy.Sku: 9780140444438
The Divine Comedy: Paradise
By: Dante Alighieri, Translated by Mark Musa$25.99 -
The second volume in Dante's Divine Comedy, translated by Mark Musa.Sku: 9780140444421
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory
By: Dante Alighieri, Translated by Mark Musa$23.00